On the 4th Sunday after Pentecost, in Year A of the lectionary, we finish our three-week journey through the chapter with Matthew 10:40-42. It started out with Jesus preparing his disciples for a mission trip. His lessons morphed into warnings of much later persecutions. And now we get this tiny reading which is ostensibly the […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 9:35-10:8
On the Second Sunday after Pentecost in Year A, the Gospel reading has two options: one short, one long. I’m sticking with the short one, so this will be a children’s sermon on Matthew 9:35-10:8. (You can find my Monday Meditation on this text here.) I make that choice primarily because it is a tighter, […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, 2nd Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 6 (11) — Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23)
In Year A, the Gospel text for the Second Sunday after Pentecost is Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23) — that is, the core is 9:35-10:8, and 10:9-23 is optional. I can see why they give the preacher the opportunity to cut it off partway. The text sort of morphs in the middle, subtly shifting topics. Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23) 9:35-38 […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Trinity, Matthew 28:16-20
The Sunday after Pentecost is called “Trinity Sunday” in the West. If you frequent Orthodox churches you will know that pretty much every Sunday (really every single service in the year) is about the Holy Trinity. In the West we tend to need the annual reminder of the nature of the God we worship — […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Pentecost, John 7:37-39
On the day of Pentecost in Year A, the alternate Gospel reading is John 7:37-39. John 7:37-39 I’ve previously written on the primary Gospel reading for the day, John 20:19-23, when it was paired with the story of Jesus’ kind revelation to “doubting Thomas” (once in 2020, and once in 2019). This year, Pentecost happens […]
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